Ski Cape Smokey this Winter
Ski at Cape Smokey near Ingonish and you’ll join a number of skiers who use Cabot Shores as a home base for winter adventures including downhill and cross country skiing, winter hiking and snowshoeing.
Ingonish is a frequent stop for guests at Cabot Shores, winter and summer, for the skiing and for Cape Breton Highlands Park where some guests also take time to snowshoe or hike the Middlehead Trail.
Why Ski Cape Smokey?
- It is the best and only Nova Scotia mountain with a great view of Ingonish Bay and the Atlantic. You feel like you are skiing or snowboarding down to the ocean.
- It has a partnership with Cabot Shores that offers you a ski ticket discount for every day a skier or boarder is staying at Cabot Shores. Book online or call us for details in terms of booking your lodging at Cabot Shores and booking your lift ticket for the day or afternoon.
- After a day of downhill skiing or snowboarding in the Highlands and ocean air, you’ll really enjoy delicious and plentiful food at the Cabot Shores Bistro followed by a hot tub under the stars (or the snowfall), a barrel sauna, or just sitting around a wood stove in the Lodge Great Room or in your chalet, yurt or dome…
Cape Smokey has a thousand foot drop and there are 15 ski runs.
Trails Map c/o Cape Smokey
Since 2019, there’s now a gondola and a uniquely Cape Breton experience as you ski from a Cape Breton Highlands peak down toward the Atlantic. According to guests, this winter is one of the best in years, for skiing and boarding or just riding the gondola to the top.
Why Ski Cape Smokey and Then Stay at Cabot Shores?
A number of skiers stayed here last weekend and enjoyed Live Music with Shelley Allen and a Kitchen Party/Music Jam afterwards They also sat in a Big Cedar Hot Tub under a full moon on our Sauna Deck, while others used Hot Tubs on their yurt and dome and chalet decks.
This couple sat in a chalet hot tub and looked out at the Atlantic and the snow on Church Pond.
Other guests in the group decided to spend a day at Cabot Shores snowshoeing. They took off from the lodge and did the “Grove Trail” which leads through a spruce forest into a meadows (by summer) that features groves of Birch, Ash, Oak and Maple.
This Trail connects with the Indian Brook loop which our guests extended to pass Beaver Cove. They enjoyed the snowshoeing and spent the next day Skiing Cape Smokey–overall a full trip with winter adventure, good food and music.
Another guest, a Caper, returned and said: “Our favorite place to stay every year for our birthdays together.”
All in all, Cape Breton makes for a fun place to explore during winter.